Amazon makes $500M bet on itty-bitty nuclear reactors to fuel cloud empire

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The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition

plans to support the development of three new nuclear energy projects, which it says will see the construction of several new small modular reactors .

The cloud titan plans to develop four"advanced SMRs" in Washington State that will be owned and operated by partner Energy Northwest, which represents numerous state public utilities in the region. The tech giant says the project will create up to 1,000 temporary construction jobs and 100-plus permanent jobs once the SMR project is fully operational.

As we reported earlier this week, Kairos doesn't actually have a working reactor yet. It did break ground on a test facility earlier this year, which it aims to have operational in 2030, but says commercial reactors capable of producing 150 megawatts probably won't arrive until at least 2035.

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